NKM025
ükya
We come for an experienc of presence
Artist: ükya
Album title: We Come for an Experience of Presence
Label: Nakama Records
Catalog number: NKM025LP / NKM025CD
Release: 29th April 2024
Formats and pricing:
- vinyl from €15
- CD digipak from €6
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
We Come for an Experience of Presence is the result of a successful studio day in April 2022. The album represents ükya’s musical beginning and simultaneously the foundation for what is yet to come. The music is freely improvised, but the trio has found their own little patch in the ever expanding forest of improvised music. To use Peter Margasak’s words: The music certainly takes great inspiration from classic non-idiomatic free improv, but the execution is so bold and assured that it avoids ever sounding tentative or cliched, qualities that frequently bog down so much like-minded improvised music today
This is also the first band ever on Nakama Records which does not feature any member from Nakama. It only took us 25 releases to there, but ah – how we delight in the smell, taste and – not least – sounds of fresh blood! Jokes aside – we still consider them family, as two of them have attended The Nacademy (a summer course in improvised music) in the past.
Mature and convincing
- Massimilano Busti, BLOWUP Magazine
The music certainly takes great inspiration from classic non-idiomatic free improv, but the execution is so bold and assured that it avoids ever sounding tentative or cliched, qualities that frequently bog down so much like-minded improvised music today
- Peter Margasak
If free jazz already destroyed certain previous structural and harmonic references, this is the deconstruction of free jazz
- Gilberto Ongaro, Musicmap
Artist bio
ükya (always written like that) consists of trombonist Emil Bø, guitarist Kristian Enkerud Lien and drummer Michael Lee Sørenmo. The trio works with conceptions around just intonation, European art music, minimalism, jazz and British improvisational music. This results in a contemporary reflection of free form and a rigorous organization of sound in a lyrical and energetic wrapping.
Credits
Emil Bø - trombone
Kristian Enkerud Lien - guitar
Michael Lee Sørenmo - drums
Recorded by - Børge Fjordheim
Mix - Kyrre Laastad
Mastering - Karl Klaseie
Cover design - Christian Meaas Svendsen
Emil / Michael / Kristian
photo: Fan-Qi Wu
photo: Wasyl photography